Some more entertaining or useless significant trivia for everyday use--

has nothing to do with New Hampshire, Waterfront homes or real estate.

Everyone has something to say about real estate, buying or selling homes whether it be in the Lakes Region, Seacoast, White mountains, anywhere in the Granite State. Then there all the hoopla about mortgages, interest rates, real estate companies folding, lenders going out of business, all the ballyhoo on sub prime loans, banks, foreclosures, and all the bad press about the housing market in general. Not to mention all the stuff in Iraq, the war, anything that comes out of President Bush's mouth, the election, Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise, the writer's strike, Nostradamus, it is never ending. 

So here I have compiled a list of little ice breakers--small talk of sorts- to take your mind off the press -- Little known factoids to get into heated discussions about nothing.You never know when you might need to know some of this....

 

• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.
•  No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. Oh go ahead...I'll wait...~
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
• The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.  
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!
• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.--So did the first " Marlboro Man. 
• Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!
• PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR!
• The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs... but, not downstairs.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
• Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)
• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal."The second? William Jefferson Clinton
• Turtles can breathe through their rear end.   (I know some people like that, don't YOU?)
• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body. 
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
• Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.
• Ants don't sleep.
• Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop.
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph. They also eat those nasty mosquitos.
• Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet --.and they prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes--only the female ones bite by the way.
• Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop.
• The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
• Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
• Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
• On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000. (Hey I am a man so I don't have much to say about that little factoid. )
• A cucumber is 96% water. 84% of a raw apple is water.  The human brain is about 85% water. 
• A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey. In the lifespan of a worker bee-it will produce only 1/12 of  teaspoon of honey. 
• The bubbles in Guiness beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top as in other beers.
• Sea water, loaded with mineral salts, weighs about a pound and a half more per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature. 
• Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
• Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms. AND There are more than 500 varieties of banana in the world
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• Amateurs...built the ark.  Professionals...built the Titanic

 

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